wus

/wʌs/

noun

1.

(South Wales, dialect) a casual term of address: fancy a drink, wus?

Word Origin

from Welsh was, variant of gwas servant

Wu1

/wuː/

noun

1.

Harry, real name Wu Hongda. born 1937, Chinese dissident and human-rights campaigner, a US citizen from 1994: held in labour camps (1960–79); exiled to the US in 1985 but returned secretly to document forced labour in Chinese prisons

(w) Chinese-born American physicist. Research with her colleagues on electron emission in the decay of radioactive elements showed that parity symmetry, long thought to hold for all physical laws, is in fact violated; the decay processes displayed odd parity, essentially entailing that nature distinguishes between right-handed and left-handed processes.